132 Quotes About Chivalry

[Fitzgerald's] latter work represents essentially best qualities of chivalry and decency now too often lacking in the English themselves.

In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.

I did a research assignment on life in the Middle Ages only last year. I found the era fascinating, all that chivalry and court romance. But I never pictured anything as poor as this village. This is the pits. There's no romance here, definitely no chivary. And it stinks--of sweat and smoke and sewage.

But fear no more! I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I alone could save her, so, using the weapon of the Dark Lord for her good and my glory. No, I do not wish for such triumphs, Frodo son of Drogo.

His attentive treatment of her had nothing to do with the presumption that she was weak, and everything to do with the conviction that she was valuable.

Though he was her enemy, he treated her with unfailing courtesy.

Straciliśmy świat i świat stracił nas,co myślisz o tym, Tristanie, mój miły.— Miła, kiedy ciebie mam z sobą,i czegóż mi trzeba?Gdyby i wszystkie światy były z nami,widziałbym tylko jedną ciebie.

The compleat gentleman has always been akin to the warrior, but it does not follow that he has always been a soldier. When duty calls, he will be a fighter, but his martial skill may be practiced with his wits rather than his fists.

Life is a martial art.